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"Tiika, its bird food, it’s not

dog food," Dogmother
sighed. "I've seen the other

dogs eating the wheat that is
scattered for the ducks,"

Tiika said - "and I haven't
seen you tell them off for
that!" "I would if I saw them

eating it," said the
Dogmother. "Why don't you

go and find Oreo and Ewok
and have a game with them?"

By the end of the first day,
Elsie had lost two balls in the

creek and completely
destroyed a third. "We are

going to have to go and buy
more balls," the Dogmother

lamented.

Tucker was getting increasingly taciturn because both Elsie and Bertie could
run faster than him and kept intercepting his balls when they were thrown and

taking off with them - even though the Dogmother had a ball each for
them. Elsie would lose hers in the creek and then go after Tucker's.

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